July 2018 LSAT Discussion

Your friends have stopped texting you because you’ve always got your head in a book.

Your significant other has gone to bed alone while you stayed up to review your last PrepTests.

Your parents have called you to make sure you’re still alive.

Now you’re even starting to have weird dreams about working through LSAT questions.

As you’ve slowly adjusted to living your life in 35-minute increments, the LSAT has so thoroughly engulfed your mind that you can’t even escape the LSAT while you sleep.

It’s been a long road my friends, but alas, you’re about to reach the finish line and take the July LSAT. Congrats!

As is the tradition here at lawschooli.com, here is a post where we can discuss the LSAT that was administered today, July 23, 2018.

We’ll update this post throughout the day to track the July 2018 LSAT as we get more information and you can use the comments section below this post to discuss the score release and anything else related to this test (how it went, do you need to retake, etc.)

DO feel free to share RC, LG and LR keywords, this will help us figure out what the real passages were.

DO celebrate your achievement! You’ve worked hard and you have completed the LSAT!

DO NOT post any question specifics like “I got A for #2” or write at more than just a keyword or two about any question, this could get you (and us) in trouble with the LSAC. Saying I had an RC passage about Galileo is ok, saying I had an RC passage about how Galileo was not the first person… is not ok.

DO NOT talk about specific game setups, or how you tried to solve it.

Comments that violate these guidelines will be deleted.

Let the discussion begin! – Looking forward to hearing from everyone in the comments below.

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21 Comments

What would you recommend study wise if I am potentially wanting to write again in September? Take time off? Or keep studying straight through till the test? I followed your 4 month study plan and additionally even purchased the most recent preptests 81, 82 and 83..so I am pretty much out of completely undone preptests to work with. I’m terrible at RC so that’s likely where I lost the majority of my points, not entirely sure how to improve on that.

I don’t know why but the RC really tripped me up. i felt pretty good about the rest of the test. The diplomat/circular game tripped me up initially but once I worked through it I think I did fairly well on it. I spent way too much time on the third RC passage and only had about 5 min to read an answer the last RC passage and I basically had to take an educated guess on the answer to them – a rookie mistake I told myself i wouldn’t do. I’ll be signing up for September and crossing my fingers to hope that maybe RC didn’t trip me up as bad as I think it did. But when you’re aiming for 170, there isn’t much room for error and mistakes like that to be made 🙁

The February exam is undisclosed, meaning they do not provide students with a copy of the exam or the graded answer sheet or even the scoring scale. This allows them to reuse the test. However, generally, they only reuse the test in situations such as Saturday Sabbath observer administrations, accommodated testing, emergency rescheduling (for weather, etc).

I can’t think of a previous example of a February exam being used in the future as a regular administration. Very strange. My guess is that when they added these extra test dates and had to scramble to come up with extra exams for them.

How do law schools treat multiple LSAT scores? I’m worried that the games section is going tank my score. If I have to take it again, will that hurt my chances of getting into a good law school? Your site has been a huge help throughout this whole frustrating process. Thanks for all you guys do!

Real LG section the last game had a circular table for an international meeting, don’t remember the content of the first game, and I don’t remember the order of the 2nd and 3rd games but one of them was 7 schools attending 5 theater performances, and the other was an assignment of workers to different departments in a store (furniture, gardening, household)

Yeah, people described games 3 and 4 as sort of a knockout combo. One or the other screwed up their timing, and from there it got really messed up.

A bad showing like that is no reason to abandon your LS dreams. Each test, the LSAT allocates difficulty among the sections in a different way. This is called section balancing. Certain balances might be very hard for an individual taker, which adds a component of luck to this whole LSAT business.

Luckily, you can retake. You aren’t very likely to see another totally evil LG section, so don’t be discouraged from trying again.